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Since the issue of slavery was threatening to sepreate the country they combine the bills together in hope to keep a country in union .
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was apart of the Compromise of 1850 it required Americans to return runaway slaves to their "Owners"
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A book written by Harriet Beacher stowe that exsposed the brutality of slavery to readers in the United States and other countries . It damaged the false claims by "the South" who said slaves were happy with their lives
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-Repealed the Missouri Compromise (Kept Balance within Congress)
-formed Kansas-Nebraska territories
-Applied the concept of slef rule (Choice of slavery) -
Dred Scott sued for his freedom after briefyly living with his owners on free soil in the North. The Judge ruled -slaves were property never citizens
--Northeners joind the Republican Party -
-Douglas spoke on popular soverighty
-Lincoln spoke against the exspansion of slavery into territories (Kansas Included)
**However , the great debate ended and Lincoln lost. -
A rapid led by John Brown on Harpers Ferry was ment to mix up a slave revolt.
*Did not work -
Lincoln won election.
*Southerners withdraw from union (states) -
South Carolina was the first state to succeed from the union.
-Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virgina, Arkansas, Tennesee, and North Carolina followed.
*They formed the confederate states of America with Jefferson Davis as president.
Direct cause- as the union fought to regaiin the CSA
